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Dateline: 21st March, 2007

Production photo of The Car Man

Revived Car Man to Tour

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures has announced the first revival of its Internationally acclaimed dance/thriller The Car Man. First seen in the West End in 2000, it went onto win the Evening Standard Award for Musical Event of the Year and The Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Choreography. The 2007 production will tour the UK between June and November, including a four week run at New Adventures home base, Sadler’s Wells

The Car Man is loosely based on Bizet’s popular opera Carmen and has one of the most instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertory, arranged by Terry Davies.

The familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy garage-diner in 1960’s America where the dreams and passions of a small Italian/American community are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge.

The Tour

Mon 18 – Sat 23 Jun
Theatre Royal Plymouth

26 – 30 Jun
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

3 – 7 July
Theatre Royal, Nottingham

10 - 31 July
Sadler's Wells, London

3 - 8 September
Milton Keynes Theatre

11 – 15 September
Theatre Royal, Glasgow

Tue 18 – Sat 22 September
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

Tue 25 – Sat 29 September
New Wimbledon Theatre

Tue 2 – Sat 6 October
Regent Theatre, Stoke

Tue 9 – 13 October
Theatre Royal, Newcastle

Tue 16 – Sat 20 October
New Victoria Theatre, Woking

Tue 23 – Sat 27 October
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

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Tue 30 October – Sat 3 November
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Tue 6 – Sat 10 November
The Lowry, Salford

Tue 13 – Sat 17 November
Birmingham Hippodrome

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©Peter Lathan 2007